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We are currently offering a bursary to applicants who are a family carer (ie provide regular support) of a person with intellectual or developmental disabilities and meet all other admission criteria for Master’s programmes at Tizard. The bursary is part … Continue reading →

Dr Jill Bradshaw, Tizard Centre, facilitated a discussion on reporting pain and accessing healthcare at the Talking Mats Keeping Safe seminar last week.  Their new resource aims to create a listening space for people with learning disabilities to think and … Continue reading →

BILD now have 4 new CAPBS videos (Centre for Advancement of Postive Behaviour Support), all of which are short interviews about Active Support taken at the Active Support and Positive Behaviour Support conference in Leeds March 2016. Active support changes … Continue reading →

Prof Glynis Murphy, Dr Rowena Rossiter, Clare Melvin and Aida Malovic attended a recent two day training on the Good Way model of intervention for young people with harmful sexual behaviour.  This was given by Lesley Ayland from WellStop in … Continue reading →

Today saw the first of three taster sessions being held at the Tizard.  Dr Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou looked at “Sleep problems in children and adults with intellectual disabilities”.  The session was well-attended and very well received with many commenting that they … Continue reading →

The next SPELL framework training is taking place on 11, 12 & 13 July 2016 at the University of Kent.  Registration and payment for this is via the University online store, however anyone wishing to undertake this training will need … Continue reading →

Dr Nick Gore is carrying out research into what life is like for families with a child with behaviours that are challenging.  A variety of communication methods will be used to interview children and family carers about the impact of … Continue reading →

The first of our taster sessions is being held on 21 April 2016, 0930-1300 hrs in the Woodlands Annex, Tizard Centre, UoK.  Dr Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou will be looking at sleep problems in children and adults with intellectual disabilities.  Sleep deprivation … Continue reading →

Dr Jill Bradshaw & Lisa Richardson were able to arrange free access to certain recent articles to coincide with the Making Research Count presenting that they did together at Kings College London; the result of their research around Living in … Continue reading →

Serena Brady & Dr Nick Gore were presented with an award for their outstanding paper on early intervention at the Jim Mansell Memorial Lecture last Friday. “Early intervention for children with learning disabilities: making use of what we know” Tizard Learning … Continue reading →